Misshapens are super-humans, they can be mutants or genetically modified humans. The origin of misshapening itself comes from magic shards. Direct contact with these shards give sensibility to magic, opening those shards and breaking them apart delivers a monumental quantity of energy. This energy is simply pure magic in a free state. Gods possess pure magic in a considerably more concentrated state. The exposure to these rays modify genetic structure (as any radioactive explosion does), but in this case, pure magic will be said to have a "consciousness", it will modify with a purpose. If to survive or to thrive you need to hunt, such an exposure will allow you to detect animals from far away, or create fire with your hands, or even fly. This energy knows about the world and evolve each time it’s passed to the next generation. That’s why we can find people able to control electricity, or computer circuits. Just like the magic gene, the misshapen gene is hereditary. It has no virtual limitation but it can very often be a real burden for the misshapen. 

 

The versatility of superpowers is explained by the evolutionary process and adaptability of the misshapen gene, but what kind of abilities does it include?

 

Part 1: Physical misshapening.

 

This kind of misshapening is about body changes and the ability to change your body form and structure. It’s the primal evolutionary misshapening, the ability to adapt to your surroundings, that’s how we got werewolves in the first place (they closed themselves to the world in communities). But this also includes enhanced physical strength, reflexes and anything related to physical skills. What characterizes misshapens is that their abilities can only be more or less intense, but they can’t change anything about it. Like all mishappenings, it’s most of the time separated in three other categories: the Mystical, Biological, and Quantum Physical Mishappenings.

 

Some examples of physical misshapening:

Mystical-Physical Misshapening- SilverFox: His ability to see the future only affects himself but relies on divine magic (or quantum magic).

 

 

Biological-Physical Misshapening- Apollo: His ability to adapt to whatever he threatened by is purely biological, it relies on molecular structure and reconstruction along with body creation of new cells.

 

Quantum-Physical Misshapening- Gravity Punch: His ability to lower down or concentrate his boy density allowing him to elevate or stick to the ground only affects himself on a quantum level, it’s about his atoms, their kinetic energy, and density.

 

 

Part 2: Externally Effective Misshapening.

 

This category is about misshapens with the ability to affect (and not control) their surrounding. It’s pretty much what you think it would be, some can unload energy, this energy was either inside them (if they also had energy containment abilities, which they practically always do), or in another dimension (in that case they simply have the ability to summon simplistic portals). As always, this can be separated into three categories: The Mystical, Biological and the Quantum Externally Effective misshapening.

 

Some examples of Externally Effectivemisshapening:

Mystical External Effective Misshapening- Akhmet: Her abilities to summon cursed fire originates from an Egyptian deity. She can only do that but the source is infinite.

 

Biological External Effective Misshapening- Crimson Blur: His abilities to store, channel and deliver heat/laser energy relies on his inner link to another dimension, but his power itself is only effective as long as it can rely on Crimson Blur’s biological structure

 

Quantum External Effective Misshapening- Monarch: Her ability to channel “primitive” energy allow her to create with her hand anything that goes through her mind, the energy has to go through her first.

 

Part 3: Spatially Based Misshapening

 

This kind is about controlling environment itself, space itself. Unlike Externally Effective Misshapenig, this one doesn’t rely on the users’ body, only on their grasp to the universe they're in (or others). This includes such basic abilities as telekinesis or nature control. And of course, we can separate it into three categories: Mystical, Biological, and Quantum Spatial Misshapening.

 

Some examples of Spatially Based misshapening:

Mystical Spatial Misshapening- Lady Midnight: This ability is also known as divine magic, chaos magic or eildritch magic. It’s pretty much the ability to create and destroy anything thanks to a control over pure magic, the users documented are gods and few humans.

 

Biological Spatial Misshapening- Arabella: In this case, Mechanical Spatial Misshapening. She can construct anything just by picturing the finale product, it’s a special ability engineered by an old king. She manipulate the object themselves, and they’re part of the world’s construct.

 

Quantum Spatial Misshapening- Kobolt: He has the ability to manipulate his surrounding on an atomic level, he controls atoms kinetic energy and direction.

 

Part 4: Others

 

There are other possible origin of a misshapening, notably a Red Tear origin: All super-humans emerging from an experiment are considered misshapens, the ranking for red tear victims stays the same: but their power doesn’t evolve in the same way:

 

The Red Tear: After researchers on the shards, scientists tried to recreate the event by utilizing shard dust into a chemical. They called it the Red Tear because of its color and the fact that it dives deep into people’s minds and feeling to determine their incoming abilities. Like any well programed robot, it does what it’s asked to do without consideration, and without limit. That’s why red tear victim can see their biggest trait radically opposed (the red tear trying to compensate). That’s how a retarded boy became the most intelligent man on Earth, a shy kid the most convincing, a girl in a wheelchair able to fly and a bling girl can see for miles and on many different spectrums. The changes provoked can’t really stop, it goes on and on until the victim dies, at least without the help of the Blue Tear. It stops the evolution of the red tear by freezing it where it is, the victim keeps their new ability at whichever state of the transformation it stopped at. Owl Knight never received the Blue Tear, he stocked his knowledge in external databases in order to stay sane, but not being treated caused Fallouts. The Fallout of the Red Tear are like the slightly less clever version of the Red Tear, rather than doing the opposite of the biggest trait, they just do what they see and enhance what the victim was doing at the moment of the contact (It was later localized and stored because the fallout are less dangerous and more predictable than the red tear). Note that the Fallouts don’t kill.

 

To conclude:

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It’s important to say that most of the time, misshapening are mixes of these categories, for example, Phoenix can control people with his voice, which is a category 1 misshapening, but he does have an effect on his surroundings, making it a category 2 misshapening. It can be more or less clear and it became even less through the generation and genetic exchanges. Today only a new shard explosion exposure can truly create a single category power (like SilverFox).